About

Arms OA – where art meets science

We equip mission leaders with trusted, accurate and evidence-based information to help them understand and analyse complex problems and make effective decisions.

Arms OA provides creative solutions to resolve complex analytic questions. No two questions are the same; each analytic task is solved via tailored methodology. By applying a creative mix of art and science, ArmsOA will provide unique perspectives for the most challenging problems facing today’s leaders.

Our Executive Director, Phil ‘Hog’ Arms CSC is an experienced operations analyst who has assisted Joint Force Design, Joint Logistics Command, Army, Navy and Air Force teams in Australia and overseas to solve complex capability and force design problems. He is an experienced practitioner in applying operations analysis at the strategic, operational and tactical levels via the use of wargaming and analytical modelling.

Our Vision

To be Australia’s premier sovereign operations analysis company, respected for the blend of operational art with analytic science that we apply in the analysis of complex national security problems.

Our Mission

To blend analytic modelling capabilities with a wargaming methodology to generate evidence-based, trusted and credible quantitative analysis.